CVE-2004-0171
FreeBSD <= 5.1 - Denial of Service via Out-of-Sequence TCP Packets
Title source: llmDescription
FreeBSD 5.1 and earlier, and Mac OS X before 10.3.4, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion of memory buffers and system crash) via a large number of out-of-sequence TCP packets, which prevents the operating system from creating new connections.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Various Sources vendor-advisory
x_refsource_apple
http://lists.seifried.org/pipermail/security/2004-May/003743.html
Various Sources vendor-advisory
x_refsource_freebsd
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp.asc
Patch, Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory
x_refsource_idefense
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=78&type=vulnerabilities
Patch, Vendor Advisory vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9792
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/4124
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15369
US Government Resource third-party-advisory
x_refsource_cert-vn
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/395670
Scores
EPSS
0.0115
EPSS Percentile
78.7%
Details
Status
published
Products (9)
freebsd/freebsd
4.6.2
freebsd/freebsd
4.7
freebsd/freebsd
4.8
freebsd/freebsd
4.9
freebsd/freebsd
5.0
freebsd/freebsd
5.1
freebsd/freebsd
5.2
openbsd/openbsd
3.3
openbsd/openbsd
3.4
Published
Mar 15, 2004
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026